The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has published its new strategic plan setting out how it will support the continuing development and professionalism of the social service workforce while protecting
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Health and social care workers should be tested “routinely” and on a “mass scale” for coronavirus regardless of whether they have symptoms, according to a panel of experts. Specialists in
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A care home manager has described the difficulties in sourcing personal protective equipment (PPE) as a new London-wide procurement scheme is launched to provide kit for frontline workers at risk
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Coronavirus in care homes will be thrust into the spotlight again amid reports ministers knew a month ago that temporary workers were helping spread the killer disease. Care chiefs will
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Private care home staff in Scotland are “terrified” to be tested for Covid-19 due to fears they will suffer financially due to self-isolation, a union leader has claimed. Speaking on
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The Government has “no current plans” to exempt foreign care workers from the NHS surcharge, the Foreign Secretary has said. Under immigration rules, workers coming to the UK from outside
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As part of a wider plan to attract more staff into the adult social care sector, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced a new national recruitment campaign
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Health bosses have denied a report that transfers of patients with Covid-19 to the newly built NHS Nightingale in London were rejected due to a lack of nurses. The Guardian
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A confidential support line has been set up for residential care staff working through the Covid-19 crisis. Child and youth charity Kibble has launched the helpline in response to the
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Care home bosses have asked for NHS volunteers to be redirected to help them deal with coronavirus. The sector has complained of being “ignored” amid claims the 750,000 people who
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